Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.
Song: If once I could gather in songWilfrid Wilson Gibson (18781962)
I
A flower from my garden of dreams—
The dew from its petals unshaken,
When starry and bright they awaken—
All men to the wonder would throng.
By the marge of the life-giving streams
That, shadow’d by blossoms upspringing,
Remember the hills in their singing,
The fells of their birth in their flow;
To gather my garden of dreams
For the barren, forsaken and lonely;
I bring from the shadow-world only
Pale blossoms that perish in air.